Given the uncertain status of John Danks and the inconsistent performance of Gavin Floyd, I think that they may need to do just that. Hector Santiago is a good internal option and perhaps the Sox could give him some starts and see how it goes.

Another possibility is Ted Lilly. The Dodgers and Lilly appear to be at a contentious impasse and perhaps the Dodgers are anxious to move him soon. Lilly has made two rehab starts and as was his right, Lilly initially refused to make a third. He recently changed his mind and will make another rehab start tomorrow. I do suspect that the Dodgers want to end this controversy and, to do that, they are going to have to deal him.

The situation reminds me of the Kevin Youkilis fiasco last year in Boston and perhaps the Sox may once again be the beneficiary of a team anxious to move an unhappy veteran who still has something left in the tank.

Floyd stays in rotation long enough to establish some trade value to a contender-

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TomBradley72http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/334c0314Players that are an important part of the rebuild:
Anderson, Fulmer, Giolito, Lopez, Moncada Players that might be or could have trade value:
Abreu, Bummer, Castillo, Davidson, Delmonico, A. Garcia, Jones, Sanchez

How do you figure? We have our ace locked up for 5+ years. Peavy has this year and the next. Danks should be full strength for 2013-2015. Quintana and Santiago are cheap and under team control. Throw in all the wild cards in the minors (Johnson, Snodgress, Riezno, Beck, etc.) and we will be fine.

I agree 100% with this. How many more scoreless innings does Hector need to put up before they put him in the rotation? Axelrod needs smoke and mirrors and pinpoint control just to limp through 5 innings. Hector has the big league stuff and is a more realistic long term rotation solution. He also is a left hander that can get right handers out with his screwball.

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Me and apparently at least 10-15 other posters here. Read the threads. Feel free to point out where we are all wrong. Other posters have gone into great detail as to the issues surrounding these things in the postgame thread. I will not repeat here.

And thanks, I agree it is marvelous! Wasn't expecting that level of praise.

Me and apparently at least 10-15 other posters here. Read the threads. Feel free to point out where we are all wrong. Other posters have gone into great detail as to the issues surrounding these things in the postgame thread. I will not repeat here.

And thanks, I agree it is marvelous! Wasn't expecting that level of praise.

I still don't understand the specific issues people have with Ventura. The team is fundamentally flawed. Firing Ventura would just be rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.

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